Turkish foreign minister Abdullah Gul confirms the fact of Erdogan's threats. As Milliyet informs in May 19 issue, Gul was asked during a program on Turkish private TV whether they are going to file a lawsuit against the states that recognized the Genocide. Gul Answered, "Yes, we will take that step against those countries. We are working in that direction. They should give an answer why they cast slurs upon us and whether they have grounds for that".

Being asked whether there is such a court to apply, Gul said, "We have means for that. I don't want to go into details but scrupulous work is in progress".

If this story is true, then I don't know how they could do so. Nation states are immune from being sued to the best of my knowledge (you can sue organs of the state, ie the army, but not the state itself). They couldnt do this internationaly as there is no higher court, so I guess they could only do it by taking action inside the states they are going to sue (and what judge would side with a turk) or by suing something foreign in Turkey (no clue how they could even do this). As the countries recognising the genocide are European, and in the case of France, a major player in the EU, Turkey would be just digging itself further into a hole regarding memebership of the EU. I doubt the turks threats will come to anything.

This would be great, then the whole world and younger generations who are unaware of Turkish atrocities would be tuned into to watch facts on both sides come to play...in the end I dont think even the US or Israel would want Turkey to actually go through with this...